Why Stephen Fry was in V for Vendetta
I’ve just finished watching V for Vendetta on DVD. I’m not going to attempt any kind of dilettante review here – that’s been done – but as a bit of a words nut, I have to share V’s opening speech with you. With dialogue like this, you can imagine Stephen Fry feeling very much at home.
Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.
I think that the speech might be perceived as quite corny when read without putting it in it’s proper context. It really gave me the shivers when I saw the movie.